Renee Olstead Quotes
I encourage all of you to seek out teachers and mentors that challenge you to think for yourself and guide you to find your own voice.
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Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I think the genetics of being Irish are that you sort of prefer when it's rainy and cloudy. It's just genetic.
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it is his life.
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I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down.
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Whatever you build, you're building for the family - not with an eye toward getting away, but with an eye toward adding to the family pie.
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I'm just being myself. To me, that people are interested in Jenni, not necessarily the artist, but the woman... it amazes me still.
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I'm kind of a laugh junkie. It's what I appreciate in life, because life is rich and sometimes it's hard, and I really, really love to laugh and gravitate towards people who make me laugh.
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I'm a slow learner. When people are so talented or facile at picking up an instrument and playing covers, like Yo La Tengo, I admire that. But I could never do that.
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Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
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No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
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The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy.
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I think to be a good songwriter, you have to be able to play an instrument.
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I didn't know initially whether I'd like doing TV and whether I'd be able to work with other people. I've always done my own thing. I've never put myself into that situation, but it's the most fun I've had in years.
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I love the protest signs protected by the First Amendment - some of them humorous, some of them passionate, some factual, some entirely incorrect - all of them free ideas.
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I went seven years between 2002 and 2009 without winning. Then I did win in '09.
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I'm so hard on myself. I play these sketches in my computer for friends and they say 'Gee whiz, the vocal's beautiful.' I hear, 'It needs to be better.'
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If we were able to see God's image in our neighbor, do you think weapons and generals would be needed?
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I would trade all the individual awards I've won for a World Cup.
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My father was also a principal of a school and mother was a curriculum advisor. Both were educators.
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Cover the earth, before it covers you.
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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I encourage all of you to seek out teachers and mentors that challenge you to think for yourself and guide you to find your own voice.
